Hi Eric,
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 06:21:22AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> when run from a tarball, so we have effectively killed the maintainer's
> VCS-specific hooks that made 2.62 so hard to redistribute. I still intend
> on shipping the complete GNUmakefile as part of 2.63, now that it plays
> mu
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According to Stepan Kasal on 6/19/2008 6:12 AM:
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| That why I came to the opinion that a plain autotools-generated
| tarball would be better than tarball containing the confusing hooks.
Well, that's exactly why GNUmakefile has had two recent patches
Hello,
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:17:09PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> [...] The principle is "all users are
> developers, even if they aren't, they may become so". That's very
> important for acquiring new developers, and for allowing ordinary users
> to improve the code, or send patches.
>
Hi Stepan,
* Stepan Kasal wrote on Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:15:39AM CEST:
> This is similar to the file "bootstrap" or "autogen.sh" often found
> in the root of the VCS checkout of a project. Some people add it to
> the tarball, perhaps thinking "we have nothing to hide".
> I generally think that
Hi Eric,
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:05:51PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> Does this gnulib patch fix matters for a VPATH build?
I confirm that your commit to autoconf git does fix the bug, thanks.
> | In connection with this, I'd like to ask why is GNUmakefile
> | distributed?
>
> Because it is use
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According to Eric Blake on 6/18/2008 10:05 PM:
| According to Stepan Kasal on 6/18/2008 9:50 PM:
| | Hello,
| | when I unpack autoconf-2.62.tar.lzma and do
| |
| | cd autoconf-2.62
| | mkdir build
| | cd build
| | ../configure && make dist
| |
| | I
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According to Stepan Kasal on 6/18/2008 9:50 PM:
| Hello,
| when I unpack autoconf-2.62.tar.lzma and do
|
| cd autoconf-2.62
| mkdir build
| cd build
| ../configure && make dist
|
| I get into an infinite loop:
|
| INFO: running autoreconf for new ve
Hello,
when I unpack autoconf-2.62.tar.lzma and do
cd autoconf-2.62
mkdir build
cd build
../configure && make dist
I get into an infinite loop:
INFO: running autoreconf for new version string: UNKNOWN
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: ru
